Sow October-December or January-March, 2 seeds into 1 rootrainer. When roots fill container, pot on 2 seedlings together into a 1 litre pot. Pinch out tips when plants have 4 pairs of leaves. If autumn sown, overwinter in a light, cool place. Sweet peas often have quite a hard seed coat so it may help to soften the seed before sowing. To do this, place the seeds on some damp kitchen paper and pop them in a warm spot. Once the seeds start to swell or sprout they are ready to sow. If the seeds don’t seem to be swelling you can try making a small nick in the seed coat (opposite the ‘eye’) as this will help moisture enter the seed and kick-start the germination process.

Care Tips

Remove the climbing tendrils as they grow. Tie the stem into your framework on a regular basis. Can be grown in deep container pots up a climbing frame. Find out how to cordon train your sweet pea in Sarah's how-to guide.

Flowering

May - August (winter-sown) or June - September (spring-sown), or 12-14 weeks from spring-sowing of seed.

Vase Life

4-5 days. Avoid direct sunlight and heat. This has a beautiful scent. Add a little sugar syrup to the flower water to extend vase life.

Again germination was 100%. Beautiful blend of colours. Plants still flowering. I've grown them up obelisks and they have not needed staking or tying in. I can't recommend them highly enough.

Reviewed 1st August 2019 by Valerie

Wonderful sweet peas, just keep on flowering. Continuous vases full of beautiful, fragrant flowers. Best I have ever grown and lovely mix of pastel shades.

Reviewed 1st August 2019 by Fiona

Very pretty colours ,great collection

Reviewed 1st August 2019 by Michelle

I’m quite disappointed for the price I’ve paid as I followed all instructions and tips given by both Sarah Raven and Arthur Parkinson starting the seeds off in the winter,but have had only about 8 flowers so far at this stage at the beginning of August! I have lovingly tended the plants for a very poor show really. I have only had blue flowers so far no pink at all! Not sure I’d pay these prices plus expensive postage again. I would normally have asked for a refund if I had purchased something that I didn’t have to wait to grow!

Reviewed 31st July 2019 by Sandra

This year was my first time growing sweet peas. I chose the Aegean mix beacause Inloved the colours and I am thrilled with them. They have climbed up my homemade simple wigwam and are thriving. They are flowering really well, I am picking 2 small bunches a day. They seem to love their sunny south facing spot and a bit of Cornish rain!
The seedlings arrived healthy and well packed. Would definitely recommend

Reviewed 31st July 2019 by Diana

Happy with these good germination and flowering very well good colours

Reviewed 31st July 2019 by Pamela

See report for other sweet peas above, don’t know why these failed.

Reviewed 31st July 2019 by Sheila

Reviewed 31st July 2019 by Pip

Huge succes, quick and strong growing, but stems did shorten very quickly inspit of daily picking and trimming of the wiggly bits

Reviewed 31st July 2019 by Caroline

Planted them with the Vintage sweet pea collection. Colourful, scented flowers for weeks - last bunch picked yesterday. Will grow again next year.

Reviewed 31st July 2019 by Martin

Perfect results, with beautifully scented flowers. Just what we needed

Reviewed 31st July 2019 by Louise

Reviewed 31st July 2019 by Alan

About 40% good. The rest terrible. Short-lived, unproductive and very poor overall.

Reviewed 31st July 2019 by Maralyn

Easy to propagate, trouble free and just keeps on flowering. The best of sweet peas with a gorgeous scent

Reviewed 31st July 2019 by Sara

May be the weather this year but these didn’t grow very tall , flowering slowed early and they’re now completely finished. Just about to pull them out. Normally buy seed from a specialist supplier but thought I’d have a change this year, will go back to them for my sweet peas next time

Reviewed 21st November 2018 by Anne

These were wonderful. They arrived at the same time as a family tragedy so we're not planted for a couple of weeks. However, they grew and flourished right through the very hot summer, with the aid of diligent watering, producing an enormous number of blooms. I only kept 20 of the 60 plants as there was insufficient space and gave the others to neighbours. Mine, my daughter's and my mother's houses were supplied with bouquets all summer. I gave up picking in September and pulled up the plants that were still flowering at end October.

Reviewed 21st November 2018 by Helen

Beautiful scented sweet peas

Reviewed 14th November 2018 by Clare

Reviewed 14th November 2018 by Julie

Didn't grow more than 4 feet. Few flowers. Plants didn't last long despite being well watered

Reviewed 7th November 2018 by Pam

The plants were extremely well packed and of excellent quality

Reviewed 31st October 2018 by Graham

Reviewed 10th October 2018 by Mark

Not a great display produced. Perhaps the hot weather was something to do with it, although they were kept well waterwed.

Reply from the Sarah Raven Team:

"Thank you for leaving your review. Sorry to hear your Sweet Peas were disappointing, if you would like to discuss this further please contact our Customer Services team at info@sarahraven.com."

Posted 7th November 2018

Reviewed 3rd October 2018 by Gill

Wonderful except visitor to garden uprooted one colour

Reviewed 3rd October 2018 by Christine

From the very beginning from ordering to receiving I am extremely happy with service.
One of my moans about life today, is nobody takes trouble over their work. BUT this doesn't seem to apply to your company, thank goodness and thank you. Keep up the good work.

Reviewed 20th September 2018 by Hilary

I am a completely novice gardener but the Sweet Pea collections I bought gave pleasure for a very long time.

Reviewed 19th September 2018 by Desi

They were for a client and they flowered for a long time.

Reviewed 19th September 2018 by Janice

I have bought theses seedlings for about 5 years now. I always have a successful show of sweetpeas. It is september and i still am able to cut a few

Reviewed 19th September 2018 by Stephen

Reviewed 19th September 2018 by Elaine

Beautiful colour combination, lovely long stems for a time. Unfortunately I don't think sweet peas like my soil they quickly go to very short stems not suitable for cutting after a few weeks in spite of feeding and watering but they were definitely the nicest sweet peas I'd ever bought.
Well packaged on arrival, could not have asked for more from Sarah Raven.

Reviewed 19th September 2018 by Gillian

We had healthy plants which gave us months of beautiful flowers, the colours and smell was divine

Reviewed 4th September 2018 by Cilla

Always have sweet peas from you... very disappointed in them... colours were not as I thought according to brochure.. mainly all lilac...
The plants were healthy but somehow not so pleasing and over quickly despite feeding and watering

Reply from the Sarah Raven Team:

"Thank you for leaving your review. We are very sorry to hear of your disappointment with your Sweet peas and have refunded you for them."

Posted 7th November 2018

Reviewed 3rd September 2018 by Patsy

Beautiful scent and long-flowering

Reviewed 3rd September 2018 by Lorraine

Strong plants that flowered beautifully over the long hot summer

Reviewed 29th August 2018 by Julie

The very hot summer stunted the growth of the plants, and they did not grow to their usual height but this was experienced by most growers at our horticultural society. Nontheless we had plenty of blooms and they made a lovely display indoors and outside. Pre delivery service excellent and the plants arrived in perfect condition although some of the plants were tiny.